Oracle Fusion Technical: Reports, Data, Integrations and Extensions · Module 4 · BI Publisher: data models, templates and bursting
Localisation: Arabic, dates and numbers
Lesson 38 of 177 · 2 min
Right-to-left layout is a template property, and it is not a mirror image applied at the end. Table column order, alignment, and where the logo sits all reverse; anything positioned by hand does not. ARABIC-INDIC NUMERALS ARE A LOCALE DECISION, NOT A FONT. The digits ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ come from formatting the number in an Arabic locale, and the trap this platform has recorded repeatedly applies here too: a bare ar locale gives Latin digits in many stacks, and the Egyptian locale is what produces Arabic-Indic. Decide which the CLIENT wants — Saudi and Egyptian practice differ, and a bank file wants neither — and set it once in the template rather than per field. Date formats differ by locale in three ways at once: order, separator and calendar. A Hijri date on a statement is a real requirement in parts of the Gulf, and it is a formatting choice rather than…
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In this module: Module 4 · BI Publisher: data models, templates and bursting
- 1What a data model actually isFree preview
- 2SQL data sets: writing the query
- 3Parameters and lists of values
- 4Bursting: one run, many recipients
- 5RTF templates: the practical subset
- 6Excel and eText templates
- 7Sub-templates and reuse
- 8Layout, pagination and the printed page
- 9Localisation: Arabic, dates and numbers
- 10Performance: making a slow report fast
- 11Security in BI Publisher
- 12Scheduling and delivery
- 13What breaks: five BI Publisher failures
- 14Lab briefing · A supplier statement, end to end